 | John Watson Adams, Joel Parker - 1851 - 382 lapas
...commanded to go and say to them, — " Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts : Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little : ye eat, but...wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. — Why, saith the Lord? Because of my house that is waste ; and ye run every man unto his own house.... | |
 | Margaret Thornley - 1851 - 312 lapas
...eat, and have not enough; ye drink, and are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, and there is not one warm; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to...into a bag with holes; ye looked for much, and lo! little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it." A true history of our noblest pursuits, and... | |
 | Adolphe Napoléon Didron - 1891 - 468 lapas
...David : Ps. cix. 8.~ — " Let his days be few, and let another take his bishopric." Hag. i. 6. — " He that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." We read hi the thirty-ninth chapter of Genesis that when the Ishmaelites who had bought Joseph came... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1852 - 422 lapas
...a secret hand of providence working against him in the management of his affairs. See Hag. i. 6, " Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but...warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to pnt it into a bag with holes." The case of the labour of the mind, is in this respect no better than... | |
 | Susan Warner - 1853 - 868 lapas
...houses, and this house lie waste 3 Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but...wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build... | |
 | Witness Lee - 1980 - 80 lapas
...yourselves. CONSIDER YOUR WAYS The second thing that the prophet Haggai told them was to consider their ways. "Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but...wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build... | |
 | William Arnot - 1978 - 588 lapas
...could not read on earth the causes of their failure, but a voice from on high proclaimed it : — " Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but...wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways" (Hag. i. 6, 7). They had forgotten God, and he had... | |
 | Michael E. Evans - 1988 - 58 lapas
...houses, and this house lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but...wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. You are working day and night, but you never have... | |
 | Moshe Gil - 1997 - 1004 lapas
...to explain. Assaf read Jacob (instead of Abraham) b. 'Amram by mistake. 276 cheap and unfortunately he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes', quoting Hag., i:6). Nehorai's brother-in-law Moses b. Jacob, writing from Jerusalem in March 1053,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 lapas
...ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but...wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. HAGGAI JOHN CHAGY Shealtiel, governor of Judah, And Jehozadak, his friend, the high priest, Had no... | |
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Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 
